Are you a Blender user with some modeling chops? Do you have dreams of fame and fortune? Have you been watching Durian from the sidelines wishing you could be more involved? And have you been frustrated that we haven’t given you the opportunity?

WEELLL, Nathan’s here to announce an upcoming event that you won’t want to miss!

We’ll also be sporting a live video feed from the Blender Institute!

In looking over potential blender model sites to use for this it was pretty difficult to chose. There are a few really great options! The Blender Model Repository is a great resource, and certainly has the fullest library of models. What sites do you guys use the most?

And wait a couple days for us to post the list of models! Thanks to cwebb (not Samuel L. Jackson, actually) for the inspiration.

Later!

–Colin

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For a second there I thought, Samuel L. Jackson is going to be a voice actor in Sintel? Then I realized that Samuel L. Jackson doesn’t really fit the voice of a 15-year-old girl, and that it was a joke anyway.

Great idea! I’m in too
But I have a question:
I’ve been doing some texturing, sculpting, shading and lighting to the guardians, as in the previous post you where trying to get some community help, I even uploaded some renders to the ftp you provided.I have recived some positive feedback from David but I don’t know if it will be usefull or if community help now will be limited to model props.
I would thank some clarification whether to keep on working on the guardians or not

@Juan Romero (Onnevan): Actually, that’s a very good question. I should make an announcement soon, there have been some recent developments regarding the first scene. For now, the community should focus their efforts on Lao Tseu only– the guardian with the mustache.

Ugh! 4am for me! How long are you all planning on sprinting? Being a night person it will not be likely I make the beginning, but I’d love to help out later in the game if you guys will be sprinting like 8 hours or more.

As Saturday is already scheduled for other activities, will the list be available after the sprint for those of us who can help, but just not on this date? Seems background props could be used even if not supplied this weekend.

I’m wondering if there will also be chances like this for making characters? Maybe we could have a channel for character modeling, rigging, and animating? I know I for one would be very interested in creating some background characters

It could also be a great chance to try out this new rigify auto-rigging script… having users take the rigs Nathan makes and apply them to other characters. Perhaps?

Hi all.
What is 1:00pm GMT in USA Eastern Time(New York)?
Is it 8 AM?
@durian team
It would be nice if your nicks in irc where the same as your names or closely similar.
Where is the live feed? Will it have audio or just video?

OK. In the video I see Broken Window, Extra clothing for Sintel (warm weather stuff, long shirt, shawl?), Water pouch, Rolled up quilt, Small stool, broken ceramics, sacs, sticks, moldy lumps, foot chicken leg bone with only a little bit of meat left on it, walking stick, guardian equipment (different from one anothers), and that is all I could see. Can’t wait!

That is what I just found. I found out where I live, it starts at 10pm on Saturday night for me. So I have to do it all of Sunday. Hope my list of things I saw in the video is helpful to some of you. You could start finding some reference for it.

blah 4am wake up call, i’m normally crawling into bed at that time =p, i guess i’ll have to goto bed early so i can work on this maybe i should get some locals together for coffee and then we crack the whip to get to work

How long will the sprint go for? (1PM GMT = 2AM here in NZ ) I might model a few things if it goes for long enough.

Also, is it just models that are needed, or do you need reference images as well? I’ve just been to Vietnam and took loads of photos, some of which might be useful as refs (probably not as textures as they’re only 3.2MP). I’ve got pics of Asian-style buildings, images of run down homes/areas, street markets, small boats etc.

Me too! Please have this for at least 24 hours, because where I live, ui starts at 10pm, on Saturday night! And I have been waiting for this moment since the beginning for Durian (or Sintel)! Please have it go for a while so us people in different timezones can help!

The Blender community is like a factory: it can produce a lot of good quality output, but it needs fuel and, most importantly, organization.

In our case fuel is self-esteem: people will be very proud to have contributed and see their work in the movie.

Organization is:
– work tracking
– communication
– output control: what is the most useful output for the Durian team
etc…

It’s a very interesting idea, and original too!
It must be scary to rely on people external from the team, since it involves some uncertainty and time investment in an already tight schedule, but I’m sure everything will work fine, and you’ll get a great return an that investment.

I wish the Durian team all the best, and I might even participate in this sprint, I’ve always wanted to run down the street with Nathan

This is very, very cool – and beautifully simple. I’ll definitely be there. Don’t know how my modelling measures up exactly, but what the hey. If just some of what’s produced is useful, it’ll help the team out. Can’t wait!

Ohh, I can’t participate. A hard work plus no internet connection during the weekend makes me stay out of the fun. I’m really sad about it, since I was about to try to help you for longer time. I hope there will be some more chances…